The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Structures of the Modern Public Sphere

Abstract

AbstractThe formation of the public sphere is extremely dependent on the technologies available in society to produce and circulate social information. The formation of the public sphere has undergone several transformations as well as information technologies. The liberal public sphere, for example, was characterized by its emancipation from the centralist contours of the court and by the new impersonal structures guaranteed by the dynamics of large cities of the nineteenth century. With the rise of the mass media in the twentieth century, the public sphere began to have a more pluralistic group-driven contour no longer consisting essentially of individuals who were in public places for debates on general themes. A third stage, the current one, transformed the public sphere centered on groups into a new constellation generated by the algorithmic logic of social networks. The formation of new legal standards to deal with the negative effects of the new digital public sphere can no longer be guided by the previous standards and must focus in particular on fostering the self-organization of the technological sector concerned.KeywordsArtificial intelligenceTransformation of the public sphereSocial mediaDigital lawSubjectivity